To hate any phrase containing 'cuppa'?

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Come to mine for a 'cuppa'
Do you want a 'cuppa'
Have a 'cuppa'
While we have a 'cuppa'
Urgh

Probably unreasonable, but I just bloody hate it

I don't mind the word cuppa but my dad always says "grub" when referring to food so he never says "dinner's ready" he always says "grub's up!" or "do you want some grub" instead of are you hungry which I find irrationally irritating, so I can relate some phrases are just annoying!

Do people say cuppa in real life?

I thought it was one of those things people only say on TV

Of course we do.

I tell my cats that they've had enough grub from me, they won't be getting more and to go elsewhere if they feel that strongly about it!

Working class Northern lass
Course we do
We say cuppa, brew, butty, sarnie, grubs up
We feed the dicks and, contrary to the general MN opinion, if you went to the shop, took a parcel etc and didn't get called love, sweet, darling etc, you'd think something was up
It's just our dialect/accent/pattern of speaking

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My uncle Jack always responded to "Avez vous un Cuppa?" with "Danke"

Strong (builders) with milk with 3 sugars

Less of a popular one here, but not unheard of

@Comefromaway potter?

Spent some time in Australia this year, my DP lives over there, and he always refers to McDonalds as Macca's, I was quite surprised when I saw the signs that actually do say Macca's

Ha ha @BlueKaftan I talk in a baby voice to my little dog. I tell him to eat up his ‘foodikins’ like a good boy for Mammy! I don’t really mind any of the aforementioned words as long as no one ever starts a sentence with ‘So’. As in asking someone ‘What is your job?’ ‘ The person replies ‘So I am a poultry wrangler’. It enrages me!

Posh (ish) Vicars say cuppa 🙄☘️ But not ‘togs’ ‘keks’ ‘gansey’ ‘scran’ ‘arl fella’ ‘Bommie night’ ‘took a nuttter’ etcetera etcetera 👍🏿☘️

But never ever ‘Paddy’s wigwam’ 😡👍🏿☘️

Isn't that in Liverpool?

A wine.
A few wines.
A few cheeky wines.

AutumnCrow ·

Greetings fellow pedant!

Yes, I think you're technically right, but I would put it like this:

A coffee sounds as though you are pretentiously selecting from a range of coffees (which I acknowledge nowadays you probably are! But not necessarily at home...

Some coffee seems to suggest that you're partaking of a small quantity of the substance, coffee.

I admit it's hard to defend my position - just a strange antipathy which makes me cringe - I really don't know why!

Nothing to do with cuppas...but someone upthread mentioned that wonderful northern (Lancashire?) word, 'keks' for trousers. A fantastic word and one I try to use as often as I can!

Yes.

We use keks for underpants

Yep!
I say cuppa. Most people I know do.

Hyperbolic use of the word 'rage' for me! In West Yorkshire, tea isn't brewed, it's mashed.

Fizz/bubbly/bubbles
Smellies
Pack up

'Cuppa' I can handle. Written down as 'Cuppa tea' I can't.

You wouldn't sound like a pillock. You would sound like someone who doesn't use cutesy abbreviations.

I am quite starchy, I think. My family would say, “Who would like a cup of tea?” We also say things like “I’m going to draw a bath” and we’re very much “May I have” not “Can I get” people

I love that, @stuntbubbles - 'I am quite starchy'. I think I may be too in RL.

Even when I'm on my own watching tv propped up on my bed with a 'tv dinner' I have caught myself eating as though I were at some sort of formal banquet, pushing a couple of peas onto the back of a fork